Watercolours by Alan Louis

I paint mainly with water colours on paper. Painting is my way of expressing how I appreciate life and the beauty that I see in even the most ordinary and mundane things. Whether I am painting a street scene, river scene, people, landscapes, flowers, even a single leaf, I derive joy and satisfaction from being able to freely express my own interpretations of what I perceive, guided only by my emotions and innermost feelings. In the process of painting, my emotions dictate the actual palette and composition such that the finished work may not exactly be what I had conceptualized when I started. This to me is the essence of painting – giving free rein to one’s emotions.

As I found my passion for painting continued to develop and mature, I dallied on the notion to work as a full time watercolour artist and embarked on painting trips around Asia. During this time I also allowed my works to be displayed in art galleries, with many of my watercolours eventually making their way into the private hands of art collectors in Australia and Singapore.